Monarch butterfly migration and parasite transmission in eastern North America

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 342-351

  Bartel, Rebecca A ^a   Oberhauser, Karen S ^b   De Roode, Jacobus C ^c   Altizer, Sonia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Butterflies; Citizen science; Danaus plexippus; Host parasite dynamics; Infectious disease; Long distance migration; Monarch butterfly; Ophryocystis elektroscirrha; Protozoan parasites

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; BUTTERFLY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MIGRATORY POPULATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PROTOZOAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; ASCLEPIAS; BUTTERFLY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; NORTH AMERICA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; TIME;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; ASCLEPIAS; BUTTERFLIES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; NORTH AMERICA; TIME FACTORS;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; OPHRIOCYSTIS ELEKTROSCIRRHA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 79955537220     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0489.1     Document Type: Article

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